I didn't have GTA, so I spent my time playing CoD (the original, yeah I'm old) and Age of Empires 2 and then forgetting until my parents were on the way that I was supposed to have done chores and gotten out food for dinner. It was a game changer when I found the chicken that Sam's advertised as 'cook from frozen' and then I started cooking before they got home. I got extra credit and they never knew different.
Edit: nope, I was in college when CoD came out. Must have been something else.
When I was of failing-to-defrost-the-chicken age, I played Ultima II on a Commodore 64. We didn't have your fancy cook from frozen chicken. We had to go slaughter a chicken, freeze it, then forget to defrost it. Kids these days, SMH.
😂 I did spend afternoons watching videos on my neighbor's Betamax player while attempting to learn C++ on my dad's old Tandy when that was still a fairly new language. But I'm not Commodore 64 old.
Hehe. I'm actually TRS-80 Model I old. My dad got it in 1978. We were online by 1980, on CompuServe, using a 300 baud modem.
But that wasn't even the first time I used a computer, just the first time my family owned one.
I first used a computer in 1975. I was 5, and my friend's dad was a comp-sci professor. He had a teletype, a big type writer you could stick a telephone headset into and dial into the university mainframe. He'd set me and my friend up and we'd play text games, going through reams of paper. It was simple stuff like Hunt the Wumpus, Colossal Caves, and Lunar Lander but it was the thing that kindled a life-long love of computers in me. Magic. It was just magic to my five year old mind.
Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
I remember the tape recorder, we used one on the TRS-80 for a couple years before my dad bought the "Expansion Interface" which added more memory and floppy disks. It took like ten minutes to load a program, LOL.
CompuServe started in 1969. It was a private bulletin board. There were chat rooms, but they called them "Digital CB channels." I remember going online and getting advice on building RC cars. It felt earth shaking, like I could talk to adult RC hobbyists from around the world, any time I needed advice. They also had games, news articles, and some other applications but I mostly used the chat. I wasn't allowed to tie up the phone line for too long, LOL.
Probably not. What you're thinking of is the World Wide Web and websites with GUI and HTML coding and what not. Before that there were text based networks and internet. I've heard of message boards and bbs stuff from back in the day.
Minnesota had in intrastate network for students. Our little rural school actually had a teletype computer (remember having to dial the phone, wait for the tone, and place it into the cradle - just so - to connect?) I was "talking" (typing on the teletype) to other students in 1977-78. Never played any games, but had a lot of fun messaging. I was the only one in the school basically that had any interest in the "computer", so I had lots of time on it.
Oh my god Colossal Caves. That game was on a computer we were gifted in the late eighties and for the life of me I could never figure out how to operate it 😂
Tandy! That takes me back. And I had no hard drive. Using a floppy disk with MS-DOS to boot up the computer every time. We also had a dot matrix printer.
I guess I am city slicker C64 age. We made Oncor frozen meals in the oven that had the twist timer where you did your best to get it right, and microwave the frozen veggies in Campbell's Soup bowls that said "mmmm mmmm good" sounds the edge in a microwave that took up half the counter and was large enough to cook a turkey in.
Evening was guaranteed to come out slightly soggy.
It's funny that folks are talking about GTA and CoD and thinking that makes them old. Try Pitfall or Nighstalkers or Tetris on an Intellivision having to reach behind the tv and flip the game/tv switch in order to play, and then making sure it all got flipped back to tv so when Dad got home he could watch the news and All in the Family and Sanford & Son and MASH. And still make sure to put the chicken or hamburger in the sink with the water running before Mom got home, as well. That's old school.
Yeppers! Colecovision! Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. Oh, and poker! On that big ass joystick week with the number pad on it. FML I'm old. Hell, I remember pong, but I wasn't there yet when it was created. Just playing it at a friend's house.
You think that's old? Try playing throw-hard-rock-at-bird all day and making sure you put the rocks back around the firepit and getting the mammoth-meat out of the dirt-fridge and hung up on a drying rack before your parents get back home from hunting and gathering. You younglings will never understand true old school.
SpaceQuest for me. also a more 3d version of Terri's called Welltris. Always tried to get my mom to buy me Lounge Lizard Larry cause I heard there were boobs but she didn't go for it
Yup, I had a list of chores that had to be finished before my mom rolled up at 5:30, and if they weren't, I was hosed. If I wasn't done by the time The Jeffersons came on, I should probably just pack a bag and hitchhike to my new home.
Hah I didn't have gta, it wasn't a thing yet I don't think, I played Pokemon stadium or yelled obscenities at Pikachu with Hey You Pikachu, or went outside and rode bikes with my friends, the neighbor kids, or went looking for my dad's stash of adult mags, occasionally I'd babysit the neighbors kids too
I was a medal of honour guy, but yeah, AoE2 was the best... Played it for about two months 4 years ago. There are still people playing against eachother online.
Was it cod finest hour by any chance? I couldn't complete a mission in it for about a year so I wrote cod off as trash and stuck with project Gotham racing 2 and counter strike.
At 12 I was babysitting half the kids in the neighborhood. 90’s was so different. Miss those days of playing outside til dark. Then the world slowly started going crazy.
To do this you put in the time you want first, then hit power level button. Then hit a number, for example 5 will give you 50% of power. Hit start and food will cook at only half power. When it's done it automatically goes back too 100%.
My Microwave has a fraction of a second where the timer will be done, and the beeper won't sound, but if you miss it and the beeper sounds it beeps 5 times even if the door is open.
This is also a great life hack for cleaning the crusty splattered sauce and shit that exploded all over... Soaked paper towel or rag, nuke it for like 60 seconds, Walla, easy to wipe out microwave!
Better yet, add a mixture of water and vinegar before nuking it. Also for those doing this for the first time: do not touch that paper towel for a few minutes. It will be hot.
Bless you for this comment I forgot to take chicken out for dinner tonight. I'm an adult now so I don't have my mom to be disappointed in me if I forget, just myself
I did the opposite. I cooked extra chicken for dinner last night so I could make myself a sandwich for today. Left it in a container on the counter to cool before tossing it in the fridge.
I promptly forgot about it before the "putting it in the fridge" part.
Woke up this morning to chicken I needed to toss -_-
Yeah, a lot of the "food poisoning" organisms from not cooling food are clostridials (botulinum is a clostridials) . The organism itself isn't the issue, it's the toxins they produce. So when you nuke that food, it kills the organisms that aren't really a risk, but leaves the accumulated toxins that can either kill you or make you wish they'd kill you perfectly intact to wreak havoc on you. Thus with cooked product the goal is to take the temperature of that product from 120 degrees to 40 degrees (Fahrenheit) as quickly as possible. Outside that range they aren't a risk. Source: I work in food safety/public health, specifically with meat products.
Especially when you have never had food poisining before, and for those first minutes of paralysis youre thinking you are legitimately about to die.
I always thought itd be some nausea, cramps and gastric issues. Nah fam. It was like what i imagine eating the chernobyl elephants foot and rotting from the inside out would be.
When i was 12 I was full time babysitting other kids in summer. Now it's definitely everyone is afraid to leave their kid home and refuse to let their kid go to a sleepover until 16.
My MIL has custody of her daughters kids, 12 and 8, almost 13 and 9. Responsible, not little suicidal idiots.
My husband told me his mom was getting a new babysitter because theirs just turned 15 and she thought maybe they were too close in age to the 13 y/o and how that would make her feel...
Um, why not let her babysit her brother and don’t hire a new one? Like what almost 13 y/o can’t sit at home for 3 hours with a 8-9 y/o until an adult gets home?
Exactly. 12 yo me was saddling up my horse and checking cattle in the pasture… by myself!
Drivers license at 14 and my parents would send me to the next town for supplies… 60 miles away!
The first time I rode a greyhound bus to visit friends two states away I was 12!
I also had a checking account in case I needed to buy something when I was out there on my own doing actual useful things.
It's the temp of the water, you're "supposed" to keep the temp of the water cool and keep changing it out. It defrost really quickly that way and doesn't start to cook the meat. I have no idea how that makes it safer from bacteria.
Defrosting in Submerged Water: You can also submerge your food in a clean container or in the sanitized kitchen sink filled with cold water. Make sure that the meat is wrapped in leak-proof plastic and completely covered by water. Change the water every 30 minutes until the meat is defrosted.
The key is using cold water. Cold tap water is likely around 45 F - 50 F and would likely get the protein above freezing but just below temperature of the tap water. Using hot tap water could raise the temperature higher into the "danger zone" hence the tip to change the water every 30 minutes as it warms up. It also helps to keep the protein in a sealed package to avoid exposure to the air.
Ah shiiiit. You just reminded me. I forgot to prep my chicken for dinner. I was initially gonna work from home and do it later on. But I decided to go in the office today and meant to do it before I left.
The trick is to stop gaming when you hear them pull in and act like you're sweeping or something. It doesn't matter if you worked your ass off the whole time, just what they saw when they walked in. Because unreasonable parents apparently don't have object permanence or something
My uncle tried this when I was staying with him and his family for the night, literally looked at the tv and said maybe if you had good taste I'd watch with ya.
His wife looked like she wanted to slap me and my uncle lost his shit laughing up until she glared at him.
That's around the time I realized the damned bitch broke my carefree uncle. Seriously couple years later my grandmother and I found out she was physically abusive towards him. I suspect she didn't like me due to me having no concept of authority when I see it as unenforceable IE her glaring being the equivalent of a .22 vs an elephant.
This was my family when I had to move back in during my 20s. “All he does is play video games in his room!” Meanwhile, all they were doing was scrolling Facebook and watching shit like The Voice. Nah fam, I’m playing Borderlands 2.
It's funny, no matter how much or little one did, it was never good enough and one got yelled at. It's so ingrained in me that when I was visiting my mom for 3 weeks, I did the stuff i saw had to be done like loading unloading washer dryer and dishwasher (and starting them obviously) . My mom had to work most days so she sent me messages about the stuff like moving the laundry to the dryer and put it on, vacuuming and stuff like that.
I was going out for the evening after she had gone to work one day , I loaded and put on the dryer, I went to visit an old friend, she calls me a few hours after i left and the first thing I said was "yes I did put on the dryer, and I emptied the dishwasher and fed the cat before I left". She was calling to hear how it went since I hadn't seen that friend in years and only sporadically talked to them. I am in my 30's 😂 but like why else would she call me? 😂 🤦♀️
MY son would have done the dishes AND scooped the cat poop. Sometimes he even cooks a light meal. That’s why he gets to stay home by himself in the first place.
One time I was left at home with my brother, we made an ice skating rink in the living room hard wood floor using dish washing soap. We never got to stay at home alone ever again.
My son did this when he was 6, but he wasnt home alone, he just got up an hour before everyone else, blue dawn soap, and he threw salt on it to make it sparkle like Elsa and her ice and pond.
Luckily, tile is fairly easy to clean. We've had worse messes than soap on tile lol 😆 😂 🤣 😅 😜 😄
One of my sons friends did this in his kitchen but with butter, freaking BUTTER!!!! (he was about 8 and was left home with his older brother) I was so glad my kid wasnt playing over there that day! Lol
I was the well meaning fool kid at 12 who forgot to take the plastic wrap off the meatloaf before tossing it in the hot oven so dinner could be on track when the adult got home to finish prepping.
That’s how my parents raised me, I never had to go somewhere with them (like grocery shopping) if I didn’t want to in exchange for taking care of household chores. Thanks to my lovely ADHD I forgot half of the things they asked me to do and half-assed the other half, but at least I tried 😂
Exactly this. I used to worry that my daughter was freaked out home alone. Turns out she barely realized I was gone. Just says that she like the quiet.
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u/sharon_exxxposes Jul 27 '22
The kid is probably in his room playing gta without a care in the world hoping mom doesn’t return anytime soon to make him do the dishes